"</ ref > Although compatibilism, the view that determinism and free will are not logically incompatible, is the most popular position on free will amongst professional philosophers, metaphysical libertarianism is discussed, though not necessarily endorsed, by several philosophers, such as Peter van Inwagen, Robert Kane, Robert Nozick, Carl Ginet, Hugh McCann, Harry Frankfurt, Alfred Mele, Roderick Chisholm, Daniel Dennett, Timothy O ' Connor, Derk Pereboom and Galen Strawson.

In modern popular culture, the question of God's existence has been discussed in the negative by public intellectuals such as Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, and Daniel Dennett, and in the affirmative by such as Richard Swinburne, William Lane Craig, and Alvin Plantinga.

Dennett says that he was first introduced to the notion of philosophy while attending summer camp at age 11, when a camp counselor said to him, " You know what you are, Daniel?

Dennett attended Phillips Exeter Academy and spent one year at Wesleyan University before receiving his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Harvard University in 1963, where he was a student of W. V. Quine.

As of January 2012, Dennett is the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, University Professor, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies ( with Ray Jackendoff ) at Tufts University.

Dennett has remarked in several places ( such as " Self-portrait ", in Brainchildren ) that his overall philosophical project has remained largely the same since his time at Oxford.

* Inside Jokes Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett and Reginald B. Adams, Jr at The MIT Press

* Daniel C. Dennett at Internet Movie Database

In Consciousness Explained, Daniel Dennett ' distinguishes between a purely metaphysical sense of epiphenomenalism, in which the epiphenomenon has no causal impact at all, and Huxley's " steam whistle " epiphenomenalism, in which effects exist but are not functionally relevant.

) In 1999, Susan Blackmore, a psychologist at the University of the West of England, published The Meme Machine, which more fully worked out the ideas of Dennett, Lynch, and Brodie and attempted to compare and contrast them with various approaches from the cultural evolutionary mainstream, as well as providing novel, and controversial, memetic-based theories for the evolution of language and the human sense of individual selfhood.

Dennett gives the example of playing a computer at chess.

In this understanding of belief, named by Dennett the intentional stance, belief-based explanations of mind and behaviour are at a different level of explanation and are not reducible to those based on fundamental neuroscience, although both may be explanatory at their own level.

Dennett claims that our brains hold only a few salient details about the world, and that this is the only reason we are able to function at all.

Also Dennett says that only a theory that explained conscious events in terms of unconscious events could explain consciousness at all: « To explain is to explain away ».

On November 30, 2007, he debated Tufts University professor Daniel Dennett at Tufts on whether or not God was a man made invention.

In 1983, Dennett delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford on the topic of free will.

Dennett suggests that we can have another kind of free will, a type of free will which we can be perfectly happy with even if it does not give us the power to act in more than one way at any given time.

Dennett is able to accept determinism and free will at the same time.

Dennett asks us to look around at the universe and ask, can I even conceive of beings whose will is freer than our own?

As Dennett points out, this is only a report of where it seems to the subject that various things come together, not of the objective time at which they actually occur.

In between these games, Gloucestershire arranged his appointment as assistant coach at Clifton College, Bristol, where he worked on his batting technique with former county cricketers John Tunnicliffe and George Dennett.

And Dennett is at times aggravatingly smug and confident about the merits of his arguments [...] All in all Dennett's book is annoying, frustrating, insightful, provocative and above all annoying.

In 1987, Daniel Dennett invited Humphrey to work with him at his Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University.

It is 11 kilometres north-east of Strabane, on the banks of the Burn Dennett and at the foothills of the Sperrins.

This argument has been expressed by Daniel Dennett who argues that, " when philosophers claim that zombies are conceivable, they invariably underestimate the task of conception ( or imagination ), and end up imagining something that violates their own definition ".

Dennett argues that " when philosophers claim that zombies are conceivable, they invariably underestimate the task of conception ( or imagination ), and end up imagining something that violates their own definition ".

While he is a confirmed compatibilist on free will, in " On Giving Libertarians What They Say They Want " – Chapter 15 of his 1978 book Brainstorms, Dennett articulated the case for a two-stage model of decision making in contrast to libertarian views.

In his 2006 book, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Dennett attempts to subject religious belief to the same treatment, explaining possible evolutionary reasons for the phenomenon of religious adherence.

In his book Darwin's Dangerous Idea, philosopher Daniel Dennett is especially critical of Gould's presentation of punctuated equilibrium.

However, Daniel Dennett, in his book Elbow Room, says that this means we have the only kind of free will " worth wanting ".

Consciousness Explained is a 1991 book by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett which offers an account of how consciousness arises from interaction of physical and cognitive processes in the brain.

Philosopher Daniel Dennett responded to criticism of his book Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by saying that " when someone puts forward a scientific theory that critics really don't like, they just try to discredit it as ' scientism '".

In his book " Kinds of Minds ", philosopher Daniel Dennett wrote, " Dualism ... and Vitalism ( the view that living things contain some special physical but equally mysterious stuff — élan vital — have been relegated to the trash heap of history ...." ( Chapter 2 ).

Daniel Dennett offers a taxonomy of the current theories about intentionality in Chapter 10 of his book The Intentional Stance.

Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting ( 1984 ) is a book by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett, which discusses the philosophical issues of free will and determinism.

In this book Daniel Dennett explored what it means for people to have free will.

The type of free will that Dennett thinks we have is finally stated clearly in the last chapter of the book: the power to be active agents, biological devices that respond to our environment with rational, desirable courses of action.

Dennett has slowly, through the course of the book, stripped the idea of behavioral choice from his idea of free will.

Greedy reductionism is a term coined by Daniel Dennett, in his 1995 book Darwin's Dangerous Idea, to refer to a kind of erroneous reductionism.

In his earlier book Consciousness Explained, Dennett argued that, without denying that human consciousness exists, we can understand it as coming about from the coordinated activity of many components in the brain that are themselves unconscious.

This is perhaps what motivated Dennett to make the greedy / good distinction in his follow-up book, to freely admit that reductionism can go overboard while pointing out that not all reductionism goes this far.

* Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, book by Daniel Dennett

* Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness, a book by Daniel Dennett

" Daniel Dennett, in his book Breaking the Spell, suggests that if non-naturalists are concerned with this connotation of the word bright, then they should invent an equally positive sounding word for themselves, like supers ( i. e., one whose worldview contains supernaturalism ).

In response to this Daniel Dennett has stated in his book Breaking the Spell:

These papers ( by Daniel Dennett, Colin McGinn, Francisco Varela, Francis Crick, and Roger Penrose, among others ) were collected and published in the book Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem.

Freedom Evolves is a 2003 popular science and philosophy book by Daniel C. Dennett.

Dennett describes the book as an installment of a lifelong philosophical project, earlier parts of which were The Intentional Stance, Consciousness Explained and Elbow Room.

* Dennett and the Darwinizing of Free Will — A review of Dennett's book Freedom Evolves, by David P. Barash.

Currently ( 2003 ) he is working on a book with Dennett about the U. S. in the Middle East.

In his book defending compatibilism, Freedom Evolves, Daniel Dennett spends a chapter criticising Kane's theory.